Nice piece on the AV Club this week about ABC's the Lexicon of Love. A bit facile, perhaps, but a good intro to why it's such a great album. I don't think it invented the sound of the 80s but certainly it was defining for a whole genre. And I can't believe they didn't mention "Poison Arrow" which was as big a hit as "the Look of Love." I think I'll have to play something by ABC tomorrow night. (btw, I'll be subbing at XDU tomorrow from 8-10pm. Please adjust your radios or internets accordingly.
Y'know, sometime the interwebs just send you down a corner and then you're in an odd new neighborhood. Like this, for example. Found via Wiley Wiggins, who blogged the Tippi Hedren in the Birds doll. Altho I'd have to say that the Psycho doll is even stranger. And this doll gives them both a run for their money. I was, sadly, previously unaware of the Madame Alexander phenomenon, who seems to specialize in dolls that look like drag queens.
On the list of people I'd like to meet: female backup voices from 80s albums, including the woman who said to Martin Frye, "I care enough to know I can never love you."
Also in mind: the female voices on Joe Jackson's "Body & Soul" album, Roxy Music's "Avalon", and Thomas Dolby's "Aliens Ate My Buick". Sigh.
I know why people fall in love singers. Yes, I do.
BTW, have you been to this BBC site of "most important albums"?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/classicpoprock/albums/az/
(BTW, I've been listening to ABC non-stop since getting to your blog a half hour ago.)
wow, i actually had the tin man doll on that page when i was a kid. ah, madame alexander.
I had Madame Alexander dolls too! They weren't my favorites though, because my mom never let us play with them.